Info Post: Black History Month Week 3
Notable Black People You Should Have Been Taught About But Probably Weren't
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NOTES: Sorry about the lack of Info Post last weekend, it was my mom's birthday, I was tired, the Grammy's were on, and the Mass Effect 3 demo was ( Read more... )
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Elizabeth Cobbs/Reverend Petric J. Smith was the first black female Methodist minister in an urban congregation in Alabama. She was also one of the key witnesses testifying for the prosecution in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing case in Birmingham that killed 4 children. Cobbs testified against her own uncle, the only person actually convicted at the time. She was hounded by the KKK until she left Alabama.
He returned to Alabama a few years later to take up fighting for civil rights. Partially on basis of his autobiography, Long Time Coming: An Insider's Story of the Birmingham Church Bombing That Rocked the World the bombing case was reopened 40 years later and two additional bombers were convicted ( ... )
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Jackie Joyner Kersee: One of the greatest female athletes of all time. Joyner-Kersee was a heptathlon athlete who one three gold, one silver and two bronze Olympic medals, and she was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th century. Was an idol of mine as a child because she had an advertising contract with GlaxoSmithKline, the company that made my asthma medication; she has asthma herself and was able to control it enough to be a top athlete. Info
Michael Johnson: A retired sprinter who has four Olympic gold medals and 8 World Championships Medals. He still holds the world and Olympic records for the 400 m and 4 x 400 m relay, and he also holds the world's best time at the 300. He is considered one of the greatest long sprinters in the history of track and field. During the 1990s he was famous for his golden Nike track shoes.
Bio | His track achievements have their own page
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Joseph Lowery: A civil rights activist, leader in the United Methodist Church and the third president of the Southern ( ... )
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James Douglas, first Governor of British Columbia, was born in Demerara (now part of Guyana) to John Douglas, a Scottish planter, and Martha Ann Tefler, a Creole originally from Barbados. Telfer was free coloured, which in her time and place meant a free person of mixed European and African ancestry. Wikipedia
Measha Brueggergosman (born Measha Gosman on June 28, 1977 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist... Her paternal 4xgreat-grandparents were John Gosman and his wife Rose, African Americans who each escaped from slavery in New England colonies during the American Revolution by going to British lines. Wikipedia
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Olaudah Equiano Disputed on his origin of birth (he wrote in his autobigraphy that he was born in Nigeria and captured by slave traders at the age of eleven; some believe he was born in colonial South Carolina and his birth and initial childhood in Nigeria, as well as his telling of the Middle Passage, were fabrications made in an attempt to sell his book better); however, one of his masters allowed him to attend school in Britain and learned to read, while a second taught him to read and write more fluently, as well as guidance on profitable trading and enabled Olaudah to buy his freedom.
Returning to England, he joined the abolitionist movement, and was encouraged to write a book (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano) which helped fuel the anti-slavery movement. Wikipedia
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